Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-30
THE STATE.
ANOTHER MILL BURNED.

THROUGH THE STATE.
ANOTHER MILL BURNED.
The saw and planning mill belonging Il
G.. A. Miller, situated at them mouth oil the
Little Muskiugum. above Marietta, wa
entirely destroyed by fire "Wednesday night
Loss about So, 600, with 5 5000 insurance
The neighbors believe the fire to have beel
the work of fire bugs.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
The Stony Creei; correspondent OF The
Union, Monroe connty, UdtchHidH says
"On Saturday. the Goth instant, Otey
Maddy, son of Mr.. Thomas Maddy, aged
about l3 years, was riding on a wagon
loaded with cross tics. In descending
slight grade the lock would not bold the
wagon and the driver, Mr.. Frand Tichner,
got off the wagon to stop 1t from running
and his little brother George made his
escape from the vehicle by a successful leap
There were three horses TO the wagon
and the leader ran back and broke the
tongue of the wagon; it pitched over the
bank aud upset, fell on Otey, killing him
instantly. BY some cause he did mol
make any effort to jump ami was horriply
crushed.
PIG WITH A HORN.
The Weston Democrat says: "Uncle
Levi Fishers buggy attracted a large crowd
on Main street Wednesday. A horned pig
was the curious object that met a Demo
crat reporters astonished gaze, as he ven
tured mp to the buggy and peeped into
small box, anxious to learn the cause Of
the excitement. 1t was u genuine, live
pig, with n gristley horn about an inch
long projecting above its snout, making II
look like a young ]rhinocerous. The pig Is
healthy and fat, and Mr.. Fisher proposes
to take the little porker to his farm and
raise it,"
THREW AWAY HER BABY.
The Hinton independent is aut IOrity for
the statement that on the 18th inst, Mrs.
Harvey auckland, OF Raleigh county, while
temporarily insane, visited a neighbours
house aud started home in the night, and
on the way threw away her ~l9-months'o old
babe, taking to the woods, where she was
found the next day. Her little babe was
ALSO lbiluu tltC StllllC To- 4 "oN MIN
ing, none the worse Tor its adventure.
ATTACKED By a BULL.
Clarence, son Of Il. t. Stout, OF Clarks-
burg, was attacked and knocked down by
a vicious bull Tuesday. The animal came
on him from behind and struck him on the
side of the head with its horn. The blow
knocked him along side of n wagon, under
which he Crawled before the animal could
renew the attack.
SERIOUS RAILROAD WRECK.
A collision occurred between two freight
trains near COalburg Monday morning,
in which both engines and thirteen freight
ears were wrecked. The wreck caught
fire and burned u number OF cars, to-
gether with some merchandise.
STATE MOTIFS.
Huntington has a circus to-day and to.
morrow.
The uniforms for the Huntington Light
Infantry have arrived.
The Parkersburg Fair commences to-
morrow, the Both inst.
ca Thursday, Wm. CObs, n boy of about
ten years of rye, fell from the back porch
of the Noble building, on Third avenue,
Huntington, to the cellar, Il distance of
some fifteen feet, and the conclusion in
jured his spine seriously.
The company building the new railroad
through ~hlonongalia county is in II bad fix.
They paid out 81, 800 to the wOrkmen,
$4,000 due. Unless a new COM
panv can be formed the loss will be total
and the road abandoned. - hpk~burg TIE
gram.